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Gospel Rocket by Mike Kelley

This is a very very fun piece. The swirling video displays with people running in and out of a large curtain with a slash down the middle add this very strange element to the piece. It actually made me very dizzy walking around it. The large sign which broadcasts the piece is also very funny.…
I–The Magus

This is a good sign. Lisa has been sick for a long time. Jack is just getting better. I am moving more into a leadership roll inside my family and it is nice to get a message that with love and kindness and focused attention things may work out best for everyone.
17. Trust and love

In the first age of mankindthe people had respect for their superiors.In the second agethey served and flattered them.In the third age they feared them.In the fourth age they despised them. Where love is lacking, trust does not arise.How careful we must be in our attitudes! When we have acted from lovewe know we are…
Honey Mushroom.

What is 7,000 years and 1600 foot ball fields in size? The Honey Mushroom in Oregon–the oldest and largest living thing on this planet.
Shazam! by Jeff Smith

I bought this Friday at the Borders at the District. I picked it up to read to Kate and Jack. They love it–Kate is really into the Mary Marvel character–she is even waking up acting like her! Jack is getting into the puzzles and the magic of the story telling. I really like the book…
Abnormal Beauty

I watched this last night after I got my sick family to bed. It was on the Cox Free Movie Preview channel for Sundance. It was an amazing Chinese film–yet another movie from China that deal aggressively with the nature of Art.The movie is really well done on a lot of level, the psychosexual killer…
Tumble Room by Martin Kersels

Martin Kersels, Tumble Room (interior), 2001, mixed media, 15-foot diameter: 3-foot base, 9 x 11-foot room, 10 feet deep, 4 rotations per minute; courtesy of the artist; Deitch Projects, New York; and ACME., Los Angeles I took Jack and Kate to the Orange County Museum of Art to see the new exhibit Disorderly Conduct: Recent…
What is the What by Dave Eggers

This is the best book of the 21st century. It is amazingly well written, the characters spring off the page, there are images and situations in this writing that have changed my life–the way I look at people, the way I understand cultural difference, etc. The book is some much more than a simple tall…
Mars Volta–UCI Bren Events 01/30/08

Mars VoltaUCI Bren Events Center01/30/08 Set listThe Haunt of Roulette Dares Viscera eyes Wax Simulacra Goliath Ouroburos Tetris Agadez Cygnus… Vismund Cygnus Metatron Drunkship of Lanterns Ilyena Day of the Baphomets Notes from Security“Beanies off” “All personal items in hand” Notes from the Floor7:42–Preshow[I am] on the floor. Wild jungle techno dud is playing—the floor…